Saturday History Lesson: Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
Dorothy Parker died, rather suddenly, of a heart attack in June of 1967. She was seventy-three but had not seemed particularly sick to her friends, who still found her an…
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We Love Paul Madonna
The 31st Annual Northern California Book Awards will honor our own Paul Madonna with the NCBR Recognition Award for Everything Is Its Own Reward, An All Over Coffee Collection. The…
We Love You Back, The Millions
We’ve always loved The Millions, but when they gave our redesign a shout-out, and described us as “everyone’s favorite scrappy San Francisco literary web site,” we swooned. So the secret’s…
Car Talk Retirement
Tom and Ray, NPR’s Car Talk brothers, have announced that they’re retiring come October. The good news is there will continue to be a weekly program pulled from the archives.…
Frontal Cortex
This week The New Yorker launched a new science blog called Frontal Cortex, by Jonah Lehrer. (Did you catch our interview with him?) The inaugural post touts the virtues of…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The question on everyone’s minds: can spiders kill in space? Christopher Herwig’s photos of Soviet bus stops are my favorite things today. Not to keep posting about the Diamond Jubilee,…
“I had only two career options: revolutionary or comedian”
Nato Green talks with AlterNet about offending people, labor organizing, touring with Laughter Against the Machine, and more. “I plunged into comedy because that’s the way I know how to…
Lit Link Love
We’re excited to be included on Oxford American’s recommended links page! Thanks, Oxford American. We love you back!
The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! Friday, July 27th at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 6:30pm. With…
Publishing Via Google Docs
At HTML Giant, Blake Butler reflects on Marie Calloway’s Google doc pieces: “They are surprising and create a feeling that seems like a secret private virus or a window. There…
Get Your Sugar From the Source
Cheryl Strayed has a collection of her wildly popular Dear Sugar columns, some never before published, coming out this July. The book is called Tiny Beautiful Things, and it is available…
New Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress has announced that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey. She is the first Southerner to hold the title since the original laureate, Robert Penn Warren,…